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When business partners struggle to maintain shared values while scaling

My cofounder and I started this company because we believed in making technology more accessible, but now that we're scaling we keep making compromises that feel like we're betraying our original vision and we haven't figured out how to talk about where we draw the line. Every investor meeting leaves us more distant from each other and from why we started this.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The tension between ideological purity and pragmatic survival is fracturing a partnership built on shared purpose.

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